soundcopyright.eu — A handful of major record labels are trying to force the EU to extend copyright on music from the current 50 years to an even longer timeframe. This website has been set up by campaigners to warn people of the impending legislation plans.
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mvandemarFeb 29, 2008
You probably should have included Recording Industry or Exploiting in the title, for better response. Dugg.
geekchicFeb 29, 2008Submitter
Somedays I seem to be able to produce really good headlines - and then there are the Friday afternoons where I can barely type a sentence.More coffee needed.
dbzer0Feb 29, 2008
Signed. Dugg. FSD'dCopyrights should spur creativity not withhold it. They are not a welfare system.Don't let a bunch of corporations control what our culture is. 50 years is more than enough already.
geekchicMar 1, 2008Submitter
seemed fine to me so far.
phqnixMar 1, 2008
The reason I heard that the record companies were lobbying for change was to protect the profits of session artists used on the recording of the tracks.How true that is I don't know, but it doesn't strike me as a completely terrible.
michaelarandaMar 1, 2008
Big record companies care not for "protecting artists" so much as "protecting their revenue stream".
geekchicMar 1, 2008Submitter
Its estimated by a Uk government report that less than 20% of artists actually get any "pension" from their early music career, and the majority of those earn less than $2,000 a year. Anyone in that situation will have a conventional pension anyway.The move will only benefit the super rich artists with sucessful songs which are still sold - and the record firms who own such vast libraries that the small sums per song actually add up to a significant income.